Method of making puttees.



G. H SHIBLEY.

METHOD OF MAKING PUTTEES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26.1918.

1,300,661. Patented Apr. 15,1919.

NIT s ATEs PA GEORGE HENRY SH RLEY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT or COLUMBIA, AssIeNOR To DR. ALICE PATTERSON SHIBLEY, or WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OE COLUMBIA.

METHOD OF MAKING rUTTEEs.

Application filed July 26, 1918. Serial No. 246,857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HENRY SHIE- LEY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Puttees, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement in the method for manufacturing the non-constrictin g woven goods puttee.

The result of the use of this method will be to eliminate almost entirely the loss of goods which now is taking place in the manufacture of these puttees, thus reducing the cost very materially. It doubtless will eliminate the manufacture of the loosely constructed knitted goods puttee, this material now being used very largely to avoid constriction of the circulation in the leg;

also it will eliminate the use of the straightband woven goods puttee now in use to some extent because of the low cost.

For a more complete understanding, I refer to the following description and claim taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which 7 Figure 1 is .aplan view of the non-constricting woven goods puttee, unrolled at full length.

Fig. 2 is a view showing this puttee in place on the leg.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of this puttee unrolled at full length showing the curve which I out in the cloth, in combination with a forced curve which I afterward put in in a small segment, indicated by the dotted lines.

Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrating the method for cutting the cloth from the piece of goods 40 with a large reduction in the loss of goods.

More in detail, Fig. 1', number 1, presents in Outline the non-constricting woven goods puttee. There is a double curve in this puttee like the letter S. The two inner Curves are marked 2 and 2 and the outer curve is 3. The result of this pattern is that when the p ulttee is in place on the leg (Fig. 2) the curvatures cause it to fit the bulging parts, the calf, both below and above the largest circumference, thus avoiding constriction of the leg and in two ways:

There is absent the constriction of the leg from; an imperfectly fitting band of goods wound around the bulging calf; and the upper and last round of the goods rests upon the cup-shaped upper part of the calf above the point of greatest circumference, 4:, so that the puttee as a whole is held up with very little tension of the fastening at the top.

This puttee should be worn on the same leg systematically as a right or as a left and so become perfectly adjusted to the leg and set. This principal of rights and lefts should be applied to all puttees. The rounded corner of my puttee, 8, is the indicator which shows whether the puttee is for the right or the left leg.

The advantages to our soldiers from using the non-constricting woven goods puttee as compared with the knitted; goods puttee is that the material in this woven goods is more firmly constructed and is waterproofed and shrunk, protecting the Soldier more fully from rain, mud, vermin and cold, and there is less constriction of the circulation in the leg, due to the more perfect fit. And by the use of my improved method for manufacturing, the cost of the cloth per pair is materially reduced.

I accomplish this by cutting the woven goods puttee along the usual lines of curvature except at the lower one-third Where I continue the curve straight ahead (Fig. 3), and afterward I stretch the upper edge of this straight portion, 6, the dotted lines. I stretch the cloth by hand and in the fraction of a minute. The maximum tension is at the outer edge, 3, and gradually is diminished toward the inner edge, 2, which is not stretched at all.

A feature of the forced curve is that it loses its form when the puttee is washed, but inasmuch as this forced curvature which I use is short in length and is where the puttee wraps about the part of the leg that is nearly straight, the result is that whenever the puttee is washed the forced curvature can readily be restored either by using the hands for a fraction of a minute, or by stretching at the time of wrapping the puttee on the leg, for it afterward will be Worn systematically as a right or a left puttee and become set.

By. means of this improved method of manufacture there is eliminated nearly all of the vast loss of goods which] at present Patented Apr. 15, 1919;

takes place wherever the out curvature is smoothly When 'WOUILd around the calf, and used in constructing the non-constfictlng the remaining lower portion of the puttee Woven goods puttee. having its edges tangent to 'such curved I claim as my invention and. ask for Letpart, and thereafter stretching the upper 5 ters Patent foredge of the straight part to form curved 15 A method of forming a Woven non-concontinuation of the curvectporti-on; stricting puttee, consisting in cutting from Signed at New York in the county of Woven material a puttee having a major New York and. State of New York. portion of that partof its length which is 10 to cover the calf of the leg carved to lie- GEORGE HENRY SHIRLEY.

Copies of this patent may be' obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

